September marks so many beginnings: school goes back in session, football season kicks off, upcoming fashions are showcased during New York Fashion Week, the autumn equinox arrives, the Emmy Awards fête the year’s best TV series, and pumpkin spice-flavored everything hits supermarket shelves.
If you’ve been to enough Nicholas K shows (or looked at show photos and videos online), then you’ve become familiar with the brand’s laid-back, layer-prone, Boho-meets-rocker, urban nomad aesthetic.
If the word “face peel” makes you start taking giant panicked breaths, as your mind becomes flooded with images of Leatherface scraping off his victim’s faces in Texas Chainsaw Massacre and fears of developing a Freddy Krueger-like visage send shivers up and down your face, you are not alone.
In the late ’90s, pencil-thin brows were a beauty must, with girls plucking away at the fine hairs over their eyes with reckless abandon.
There’s something undeniably sexy about wearing your favorite fragrance on your hair, spritzing those strands so that, as your mane bounces when you walk and as you flip your hair or twirl it aloofly, a subtle trail of that scent wafts through the air.
We’ve heard of facial cleansing oils, moisturizing and anti-aging facial oils, frizz-taming and softening hair oils, and firming and revitalizing body oils, and now we’re smooching up to pout-comforting lip oils.
This season, you might just look at your favorite denim or leather jacket and think, ‘Let’s put a pin in it.’ You won’t be considering whether or not to take that piece out of your wardrobe rotation and send it on a sabbatical of sorts, but you’ll literally mean that you want to add a funky enamel pin to it.
It’s back-to-school season, which means all those days of sleeping in late, lounging by the pool, and just vegging out on the couch are officially over (but hey, there’s always the weekend!).
Remember how, in the ’90s, backpacks, denim jackets and vests, jeans, and even baseball caps were brimming with decorative pins?
Summer’s swan song may be weeks away but, until then, we’re keeping the beach party rocking and singing “Cake by the Ocean” (though I’m not 100% sure what the lyrics to that song even mean!).
